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First, what is a Flashbook? This is a name that I made up to describe the short, easy-to-read books that we publish for conferences such as IBM’s Information on Demand Conference. IBM delivers a huge quantity of messages and content at the conferences, in newsletters, in blogs, and on websites. How can you possibly retain all the key messages? That’s why I like these Flashbooks so much. We create them so that you can take away the key messages for a particular product area. We’ve received amazing feedback about these Flashbooks. ... [More]

DB2 11 for z/OS Generally Available on October 25, 2013 Rather than me telling you about it, I’m sharing content from experts: Say "Hello" to DB2 11 for z/OS from IBM Champion Craig Mullins DB2 for z/OS: How Big is Big? from Robert Catterall Are you looking for some excellent DB2 11 reading materials? from Willie Favero And last, but not least, the latest Flashbook: DB2 11 for z/OS - The Database for Big Data and Analytics By Cristian Molaro, Surekha Parekh, Terry Purcell & Julian Stuhler This book is filled with Business... [More]

The chapter focused on BLU Acceleration was released in the spring, but now available is the full book that is nearly 200 pages in length! Learn about the new software that was released this year and continually gets touted as “game-changing”. Title: DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration - New Dynamic In-Memory Analytics for the Era of Big Data http:// bit.ly/DB2BLUFlashbook Authors: Paul Zikopoulos, Matthew Huras, George Baklarz, Sam Lightstone, Aamer Sachedina Technical editor: Roman B. Melnyk ... [More]

The launch of DB2 on June 7, 1983, marked the birth of relational database as a cornerstone for the enterprise; 30 years later, DB2 for z/OS is still the undisputed leader in the RDBMS market and the envy of its competitors when it comes to total system availability, scalability, security, reliability, and cost effectiveness. A majority of Fortune 500 companies, including the world's top banks, retailers, and insurance providers, store mission-critical operational data in IBM System z and DB2 for z/OS. Why? It seems everyone offers a... [More]

Flashbook: Big Data Analytics by Dr. Arvind Sathi About the Book: Big
Data Analytics is a popular topic. While everyone has heard stories
of new Silicon Valley valuation bubbles and critical shortage of data
scientists, there are equal number of concerns – Will it take away my
current organization or investment? How do I integrate my Data Warehouse
and Business Intelligence with Big Data? How do I get started, so I can
show some results? What are the skills required? What happens to data
governance? Unlike many other Big Data... [More]

This year at the IBM Information on Demand Conference , we’ll be launching the NEW DB2
for z/OS book in recognition of DB2’s upcoming 30th Anniversary: Flashbook: IBM DB2: The Past, Present and Future: 30 Years of Superior Innovation by Surekha Parekh, Terry Purcell, John Campbell, Ruiping Li and Don Haderle About the book: Top
DB2 experts John Campbell and Terry Purcell have contributed to this
book, but as a special treat, we also managed to have Don Haderle - "The
FATHER of DB2" contribute to the book. This book is not... [More]

5 Keys to Business Analytics Program Success by Brian Green , BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Kay Van De
Vanter , The Boeing Company, Tracy Harris , IBM, Bill Frank ,
Johnson & Johnson, John Boyer , RCG Global About the Book: Business Analytics is becoming increasingly strategic to all types of
organizations. It leads to higher business performance and helps organizations
outperform their peers by 2.2 times, according to a recent IBM Institute for
Business Value study. However, many organizations appear to struggle in... [More]

Harness the Power of Big Data - The IBM Big Data Platform
by Paul Zikopoulos , Dirk deRoos , David Corrigan , Tom
Deutsch , Krishnan Parasuraman , James Giles Information about book: Big Data represents a new era of computing – an inflection point of
opportunity where data in any format may be explored and utilized for
breakthrough insights - whether that data is in-place, in-motion, or at-rest.
IBM is uniquely positioned to help clients navigate this transformation. This
book reveals how IBM is leveraging open source Big Data... [More]

Warp Speed, Time Travel, Big Data, and more DB2 10 for Linux, Unix and Window New Features Now available for FREE as an e-book. Last week at the IDUG Conference,
we handed out 250 copies of this new Flashbook to attendees. It was fun &
exciting. Here’s a photo: What an awesome group of authors on this book: Paul Zikopoulos ,
Walid Rjaibi , George Baklarz , Matt Huras , Matthias
Nicola , Dale McInnis , and Leon Katsnelson . Can you
imagine a stronger author team! Here are a couple of details about the book: Warp Speed,... [More]

Date: Mar 27, 2012 Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (Eastern Time) Speaker: Paul Zikopoulos (IBM) Topic: An Introduction to Big Data Big Data can mean a lot of things to a lot of people; but one thing we're sure of, it's the hottest thing to hit the IT landscape. In this chat you'll start with an introduction to Big Data so we're all on common ground as to what it is, how to spot it, and what the opportunities are. (Hint, be prepared to get shocked on Volume and more). With a strong foundation on what Big Data is, you'll be introduced to... [More]

If you were at the IOD11 Conference last week and tried to get a copy of the latest Flashbook “ Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data ”. If you weren’t at the conference, here’s what happened: I had 3000 printed copies of this book by IBM experts Paul Zikopoulos , Chris Eaton , Tom Deutch , George Lapis , and Dirk Deroos . We scheduled 2 time periods for the giveaways and author signings… Monday & Tuesday outside the event center after the opening session. None of the books were remaining... [More]

DB2 for z/OS Planning Your Upgrade: Reduce Costs. Improve
Performance by Cristian Molaro and John Campbell and Sureka Parekh
Book information on blog Link to an online
bookstore Electronic version (3.36 MB) About the book: Under the current economic climate, businesses are under significant pressure to control costs and increase efficiency in order to improve their bottom line. DB2 for z/OS customers around the world are still trying to gain competitive advantage by doing more with less: more business insight, more performance, more... [More]

Customer Experience Analytics: Fast, Intelligent and Action-Packed by Arvind Sathi Book information on blog Link to an online
bookstore Electronic Version (6.98 MB) Today’s customers have the ability to use a variety of media (including Facebook or Yelp) to broadcast their good and bad experience in real time. You must match their velocity! This book will help your organization create the capabilities to sense, isolate and alter the customer experience to your competitive advantage – creating a real time, adaptive relationship with your... [More]

DB2 10 for z/OS - Cost Savings ..... Out of the Box by Roger Miller , David Beulke , Julian Stuhler , Surekha
Parekh Book Information on our Blog Amazon version Electronic
version Roger, Dave, Julian and Surekha are all well known people in the z/OS community and I’m very pleased that we were able to pull the 4 of them together to write a book that will build excitement for the latest release of DB2. In addition to these fine writers / experts, we’ve also included messages from several of the top technical people in the Z area to give... [More]

This year at the IBM Information on Demand Conference , we have five NEW Flashbooks to give out to attendees for free. What are flashbooks? These are the small and easy-to-read books that we created especially for our IOD audience. I’m really happy with the topics we’ve managed to pull together this year. For those of you who are not able to come to the conference, all of these flashbooks will soon also be available for sale from amazon.com. I’ll post the details when that happens. The book signings & giveaways for these flashbooks... [More]